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Manchester Fany & VAD's
My name is Pete but there must be lots of Peters on here so I'm known as Gerry I answer to either.
I'm not particularly into badges and my main interest is in WW1 watches and thats what has lead me here. I have a watch known as a Borgel cased watch dated around 1917/18 that was presented to a lady who was living near Manchester and in 1914 volunteered to drive a British Red Cross ambulance. In 1918 along with her youngest sister left Manchester and severed with the FANY in and around Calais. I have researched on the internet and gathered a lot of back ground information but I'm hoping that there may be someone on the forum to help me out further with specific knowledge about the BRCS in Manchester and the type of badge she would have worn in both places if the were different. Pete aka Gerry |
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One of the forum members , Home Guard (Terry) has an interest in FANY/VAD badges etc. Perhaps he can help ?
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Mike do you think he'll look here or would it be better to pm him?
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I think I may have answered my own question, found this in old threads
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry By Army Order 94 of 31st March 1927 it was re-designated First Aid Nrusing Yeomany (Ambulance Car Corps) and again changed in 1933 to Women's Transport Corps (F.A.N.Y.). So I suspect that nurses and ambulance drivers were issued or bought the same badge that had Womens Transport Service as it appears the nurse element did not appear till 1927? Of course that opens another can for me what did the volunteer men have as insignia ? |
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Not sure what you mean by volunteer men
Would be badged to R A M C and male V A D would have worn the red cross badge as the females with the unit s/t in metal or cloth Male odd numbers to s/t ,females even numbers David |
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Gerry, I replied to your PM with some information.
I have also read through this thread and what comes to mind is that the watch was presented after the war ended, perhaps on her return home and was presented by the BRCS. I say this because of the years 1914-1918 on it. If memory serves, at one time during the war, the FANY were associated with the BRCS, but remained a stand alone organization. They did this to enable them to get across the channel as they were struggling to get approval from the British army. At some point they separated from the BRCS. The proper badge for WWI would be the one that said FIRST AID NURSING YEOMANRY only. The Women's Transport Service version was later and was worn by the "Free FANYs" in WW2. The FANY's that joined the British army, ATS would have worn the ATS badges, and if they joined by September 1941, they were allowed to wear the cloth WTS FANY title on the sleeve of their shoulder. Hope this helps, Terry |
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This doesn't seem to apply here, but....
First Name: M Surname: Fisher Date of Death: 1916 Service: Voluntary Aid Detachment Archive Reference: was Collections: Women's Allied Service British & Allied Women's war service in WWI WW1 & WW2 Nurses Records |
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